The laws of the commonwealth of Massachusetts relating to marriage and divorce, embraced in the Public statutes, (enacted Nov. 19, 1881; to take effect Feb. 1, 1882;) : with a full digest of the decisions of the Supreme judicial court in divorce causes under laws heretofore in force and codified in these statutes, supplemented by copious extracts from the opinions of the court in important cases, together with notes, comments, and forms of pleading.

Includes index.

The Marriage Feast at Cana

Juan de Flandes; 8 17/64 in.x 6 17/64 in.; oil on wood

Realities and ideals; social, political, literary and artistic.

Partly republished from various sources.

Marriage laws and statutory experiments in eugenics in the United States,

Reprinted from "The Eugenics review," April, 1910.

Considerations of marriages prohibited by the law of God /

Mode of access: Internet.

Manual of the laws of Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia and West Virginia relative to religious corporations, charitable uses, marriage, wills, religious meetings, etc.,

Mode of access: Internet.

Marriage records, 1665-1800;

The marriage records of the Hackensack and Schraalenburgh churches are reprinted from v. 1 of the Collections of the Holland society of New York.

Manual of the laws of Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia and West Virginia relative to religious societies, charitable uses, marriage, wills, religious meetings, etc.

Mode of access: Internet.

Marriage, as it was, as it is, and as it should be: a plea for reform.

"Catalogue of works published by the Freethought Publishing Company, dated June 1881": 24 p. at end.

Report from the Select Committee on Native Custom and Marriage Laws, together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence and appendix.

Ordered printed May 15, 1913.

Negotiating identities, striving for state recognition: Blacks in Córdoba, Argentina 1776–1853

Race in Argentina played a significant role as a highly durable construct by identifying and advancing subjects (1776–1810) and citizens (1811–1853). My dissertation explores the intricacies of power relations by focusing on the ways in which race informed the legal process during the transition from a colonial to national State. It argues that the State’s development in both the colonial and national periods depended upon defining and classifying African descendants. In response, people of African descendent used the State’s assigned definitions and classifications to advance their legal identities. It employs race and culture as operative concepts, and law as a representation of the sometimes, tense relationship between social practices and the State’s concern for social peace. This dissertation examines the dynamic nature of the court. It utilizes the theoretical concepts multicentric legal orders that are analyzed through weak and strong legal pluralisms, and jurisdictional politics, from the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries. This dissertation juxtaposes various levels of jurisdiction (canon/state law and colonial/national law) to illuminate how people of color used the legal system to ameliorate their social condition. In each chapter the primary source materials are state generated documents which include criminal, ecclesiastical, civil, and marriage dissent court cases along with notarial and census records. Though it would appear that these documents would provide a superficial understanding of people of color, my analysis provides both a top-down and bottom-up approach that reflects a continuous negotiation for African descendants’ goal for State recognition. These approaches allow for implicit or explicit negotiation of a legal identity that transformed slaves and free African descendants into active agents of their own destinies.

The regulation of cohabitants in Scottish succession law

Ten years ago, cohabitants in Scotland had no statutory rights in respect of their deceased partner’s estate. Section 29 of the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006 gave cohabitants the right to apply to the court for discretionary provision from their deceased partner’s intestate estate. This thesis examines the process of making such an application and the way that the provisions have been applied in practice. The juxtaposition of the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006 and the existing rules for intestate succession in the Succession (Scotland) Act 1964 is considered, with particular focus on the subordination of cohabitants’ rights to the succession rights of a surviving spouse, and the negative impact that this may have on children. It is concluded that the current succession framework is incapable of protecting cohabitants and children in reconstituted families. Potential measures are considered to displace the traditional primacy of marital succession rights, and provide a fair and flexible system of succession law that is capable of dealing with complex family structures.

The influence of queer theory on marriage and civil partnership in Scotland

This thesis will explore the whether queer theory has had any real influence on the law on marriage and civil partnership in Scotland. It will do so by examining the work of Michael Foucault and Judith Butler, reviewing both The History of Sexuality Volume One, and Gender Trouble to establish what queer theory has to say on gender and sexuality. Both works expose the artificiality of gender and sexuality, and in doing so, show that marriage and civil partnership are institutions created to support these artificial structures. Marriage and civil partnership are not isolated from the continuing influence of queer discourse on both gender and sexuality; however, as I will show, the influence has been contained largely to opening up privilege, both legally and socially, to those who wish to conform to structures that remain heteronormative and prescriptive.